kaffeine refuses to start in OpenSuse 11.1

There were some updates, but I’m not able to understand if some could interfere with Kaffeine that was working fine till yesterday, now it don’t start.
I tried starting it in console, but it simply hangs without any message.
Is anybody experiencing this behavior?
A program re-installation did not give any result.

Is it a kde4-kaffeine or kaffeine?
Try to rename the kaffeine directory to kaffeine_old in


~/.kde/share/apps/

and rename the rc file to *_old in


~/.kde/share/config/kaffeinerc

If you are using kde4-kaffeine then these files/directories are under ~./kde4/.
Good luck.

I forgot to mention that my /home is shared between OpenSuse 10.3 and 11.1.
In 10.3 Kaffeine works perfectly. I tried renaming kaffeine directory to kaffeine_old and kaffeinerc to kaffeinerc.old but this gave no positive result in 11.1, so I think there is something preventing Kaffeine to start.

Yes. But are you running kde3 in both?

And make sure you are using Packman packaged version.

I would probably create a new user for 11.1

you will still be able to share files with 10.3 user

I use Packman packaged version. And yes I’m running kde3 in both. Moreover also in kde4 there is the same behavior.
So, having tried to rename kaffeine directory and kaffeinerc, I don’t understand which benefit could come from creating a new user.

I don’t understand which benefit could come from creating a new user.

try it and see
you can always delete it. it can be very helpful isolating issues

I succeeded in repairing: the damage originated from the compilation of drivers from v4l-dvb-211ae674f601 that I wanted to substitute to v4l-dvb-e5ca4534b543 supposing the new ones should be better.
After issuing ‘make rminstall’ from the directory v4l-dvb-211ae674f601 and after a new compilation and installation from the directory v4l-dvb-e5ca4534b543 all went fine again.
Thank to all.
New is not always better.